HUMAN SEXUALITY

DISNEY INVESTORS VOTE TO REMAIN IN LGBTQ RANKING INDEX. Disney shareholders rejected an investor proposal to withdraw participation in the Human Rights Campaign’s corporate equity index, which rates workplaces on lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer equality. Read more here.

HUNGARY BANS LGBT ‘PRIDE’ MARCH IN BUDAPEST TO PROTECT CHILDREN. Hungary passed a law banning hosting or attending an annual LGBT “pride” march in Budapest, citing the protection of children’s healthy development. Read more here.

FEMINIST MAPPING, BLACK HAIR SALONS, LGBTQ CARTOONISTS: NEH FUNDED DEI GRANTS DAYS BEFORE TRUMP TOOK OFFICE. The National Endowment for the Humanities recently awarded millions in diversity, equity and inclusion-related grants to higher education institutions, including one for a book about LGBTQ+ cartoonists and another to study “feminist mapping.” Read more here.

MAJOR COMPANIES PULL FUNDING TO SAN FRANCISCO PRIDE EVENT AMID PULL BACK OF DEI INITIATIVES UNDER TRUMP. Five corporations have withdrawn their support of ​​the annual SF Pride festival scheduled for June 28-29, with its theme of “Queer Joy is Resistance.” Read more here.

PITTSBURGH PENGUINS DECLARE ‘INCLUSION’ IS AT THE ‘HEART OF HOCKEY’ DURING PRIDE NIGHT. Pittsburgh Penguins players, coaches and management celebrated pride night by having LGBT-themed nameplates in the locker room, using pride tape on their sticks during warmups and creating pride-themed displays. Read more here.

26 STATES, LAWMAKERS, FAITH GROUPS SUPPORT PARENTS AT SCOTUS FIGHTING GRADE-SCHOOL LGBTQQIAAP2S+ LESSONS. Christian, Jewish and Muslim parents are asking the Supreme Court to allow them to opt their young children out of LGBTQQIAAP2S+ indoctrination at schools in Montgomery County, Maryland. Read more here.

SUNY PROFESSOR EXPLORES ‘QUEER CANINE’ AND ‘LESBIAN FEMINIST CYBORG POLITICS.’ Relationships between dogs, cyborgs and lesbian feminists are the subject of a new scholarly paper by Chloe Diamond-Lenow, a State University of New York professor, featured in the Journal of Lesbian Studies. Read more here.

SOCCER: SAN DIEGO FC MAKES LARGE SECURITY INVESTMENT AIMED AT CURBING ANTI-HOMOSEXUAL CHANTS. San Diego FC, a member franchise of Major League Soccer, plans to dramatically increase its security apparatus to counter anti-homosexual chants made famous by Mexican soccer fans. Read more here.

‘OBSCENE’ MOBILE BILLBOARD FOR SEX TOYS IN DALLAS PART OF ‘TROUBLING TREND,’ LAWMAKER SAYS. A Texas lawmaker says a campaign featuring ads for sex toys rolling through Dallas and other cities is part of a “troubling trend” aimed at the sexualization of children in our society, and it’s expected to expand to New York and Miami, Florida, as well. Read more here.

ARE ELEPHANTS ‘QUEER’? FEMINIST SCHOLARS SAY SCIENCE IS TOO ‘HETERO’ AND ‘FETO-CENTRIC.’ Feminist scholars discussed their concerns about science being too male, “hetero,” and “feto-centric” during an online event at Cornell University. Read more here.

CANADIAN LGBT BAR OPENS ITS DOORS TO CHILDREN: REPORT. Evolution Wonderlounge in Edmonton, Alberta, which boasts that it’s the ‘only club serving the 2SLGBTQ+ community year-round,’ recently announced that it will invite people to ‘bring your kids til 9.’ Read more here.

VIKTOR ORBÁN’S HUNGARY WILL NOT ALLOW LGBT ‘PRIDE’ PARADE IN BUDAPEST THIS YEAR. The Hungarian government announced that it will not allow an LGBT “pride” parade to take place in 2025, citing the protection of children. Read more here.

STUDENTS FORCED TO COMPLETE “HETEROSEXUAL” QUESTIONNAIRE. Students at West Chester University, Pennsylvania were asked to justify their heterosexuality in a gender studies class aimed at shaming and embarrassing boys who are attracted to girls and vice versa. Read more here.

UK LGBTQ+ CHARITY TO CUT STAFF OVER TRUMP FOREIGN AID FREEZE. Far-left LGBTQ+ charity Stonewall has become so reliant on money from American taxpayers that up to half of its 114-person staff may be let go after foreign aid from the United States was cut off as a part of Donald Trump’s America First agenda. Read more here.

PROMINENT LGBT ACTIVIST EXPOSED AS LEADER OF CHILD ABUSE NETWORK IN BRITTANY. A criminal network of child rapists has been uncovered in Brittany, involving five men and one known as an LGBT activist, Pierre-Alain Cottineau, a 32-year-old carer, now suspected of having handed over young children, for whom he was responsible, to pedophiles. Read more here.

TRUDEAU GOVERNMENT GIVING LGBT ACTIVISTS $1 MILLION TO PUSH GENDER IDEOLOGY IN SCHOOLS. According to a government press release, the Liberal government has granted the ARC Foundation, an LGBT activist group, 999,999 taxpayer dollars to promote the LGBT agenda in schools and counter pro-family opposition to their radical program. Read more here.

GALLUP POLL: 1 IN 10 AMERICANS IDENTIFIES AS LGBTQ+. A Gallup Poll shows that nearly one in 10 adults in the United States identifies as being LGBTQ+, with results showing that the figures have nearly doubled since 2020 and nearly tripled since 2012 when the pollsters first measured the numbers. Read more here.

‘IDEOLOGICAL CUDGEL’: CATHOLIC GROUP DENOUNCES WELLESLEY ‘QUEER BIBLE’ CLASS. Wellesley College in Massachusetts offers a “Queer Bible” course that “explores the social construction of gender…in the biblical world.” Read more here.

PRINCETON COURSE APPLIES ‘QUEER’ AND ‘TRANS THEORY’ TO ‘ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIES.’ Offered by the school of architecture and taught by Professor S.E. Eisterer, “Queer Spaces in the World” is a class that aims to allow Princeton University students to ponder the role of “feminist” and “gender” theory in the writing of architecture histories in a class offered this spring. Read more here.

MAJOR LGBT ACTIVIST GROUPS ANNOUNCE MASS LAYOFFS, CITING REVENUE LOSS AND CONSERVATIVE BACKLASH. The “Human Rights Campaign” and “GLSEN” (formerly the “Gay, Lesbian & Straight Education Network”) announced they will lay off 20 percent and 60 percent of their staff, respectively. Read more here.

HOLLYWOOD’S JESUS IS BALD, BLACK, QUEER WOMAN. Cynthia Erivo, an outspoken member of the LGBT community, has been cast to play a controversial Jesus Christ at the Hollywood Bowl’s production of the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical Jesus Christ, Superstar. Read more here.

SCHOOL BOARD WALKS OUT ON PARENTS ANGRY OVER ‘RAINBOW PARADE’ BOOK FOR KINDERGARTENERS. School board members representing Penfield Central School District in Rochester, New York, walked out on a packed house of parents who were upset about an inappropriate book on display at the elementary school library called “The Rainbow Parade,” authored by Emily Neilson. Read more here.

GOOGLE CALENDAR REMOVES PRIDE MONTH, CULTURAL HERITAGE MONTHS. Google Calendar removed references to Pride Month, Black History Month and all cultural heritage months on its web and mobile applications, instead opting to display only public federal holidays and national observances on its calendars. Read more here.

CALIFORNIA SCHOOL DISTRICT FACES BACKLASH FOR LGBT ‘COMING OUT’ EXERCISE. Attorneys for parents in the Vista Unified School District in San Diego say the district violated their legal rights in a gender ideology activity during a freshman class at Rancho Buena Vista High School, where students were reportedly required to participate in a role-playing exercise called “Coming Out Stars.” Read more here.

TEACHER DEFIES TRUMP ORDER ON LGBT, BLACK LIVES MATTER LESSONS. A first-grade teacher at a school in Pittsburg, California is defying federal orders to abolish LGBT lessons to children, putting her school at risk of losing federal funding. Read more here.

TRUDEAU LIBERALS PLEDGE MILLIONS FOR OVER 100 PRO-LGBT PROJECTS. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government is using its final days to promise millions in taxpayer funds to advance 106 pro-LGBT projects across Canada. Read more here.

TRUMP FOREIGN AID FREEZE PULLS FUNDING FOR LGBT PROGRAMS IN IRELAND, SERBIA. The Biden administration had approved funds for the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) programs, in order to expand diversity, equity and inclusion objectives abroad. Read more here.

ACADEMIC JOURNAL EXPLORES ‘QUEEREST INSURRECTION’ AND ‘QUEERING LEADERSHIP.’ University of California Riverside graduate student Josie Holland wrote an article, published in The Interdisciplinary Journal of Leadership Studies, envisioning principles of queer anarchism and stating that “queering refers to a process of destabilizing norms and assumptions that invoke the possibility of an otherwise world and way of being and relating.” Read more here.

COLORADO SCHOOL BOARD COULD ALLOW TEACHERS TO FLY BLM, TRANSGENDER FLAGS IN CLASSROOM. The Durango School District 9-R’s school board is set to consider two resolutions that support displaying the “Progress Pride” and BLM flags in classrooms and double down on DEI and gender ideology. Read more here.

MINNESOTA PRIDE GROUP RAISES THOUSANDS AFTER DROPPING TARGET AS A SPONSOR. Twin Cities Pride, the non-profit that organizes an annual Pride festival in Minneapolis, announced it had raised thousands after publicly dropping Target as a corporate sponsor because the company discontinued some of its diversity, equity and inclusion. Read more here.

NOTRE DAME PROMISES TO ‘AFFIRM AND ADVOCATE’ FOR ‘2SNLGBTQIA+’ STUDENTS. The University of Notre Dame counseling center “seeks to actively affirm and advocate for Two-Spirit, nonbinary, lesbian, gay, bisexual/bi+, transgender, queer, questioning, intersex, asexual/ace+ (2SNLGBTQIA+) students by providing a safe and welcoming space,” according to its website. Read more here.

UK TAX COLLECTORS GIVEN EQUIVALENT OF ONE DAY OFF PER WEEK TO PROMOTE LGBTQ+ IDEOLOGY. Some members of His Majesty’s Revenue & Customs (HMRC) tax collecting agency are reportedly being given as much as one-fifth of their time at work off to focus on promoting leftist gender ideology. Read more here.

LGBT ACTIVISTS WANT 5-YEAR-OLDS EXPOSED TO TRANSGENDER LESSONS. Mary Hogan Elementary School, in Vermont, is embroiled in a controversy with parents over a collection of pro-transgender books and lessons that are a part of the kindergarten curriculum at the Middlebury school. Read more here.

PRIDE FLAGS REMOVED FROM U.S. OUTPOSTS WORLDWIDE. The Trump administration has implemented a new “One Flag Policy” requiring all U.S. embassies and government outposts, both domestic and international, to exclusively fly the American flag. Read more here.

VICTORIAN LESBIAN GROUP CANNOT EXCLUDE TRANSGENDER AND BISEXUAL WOMEN FROM EVENTS, TRIBUNAL RULES. The Lesbian Action Group, in Australia, cannot exclude transgender and bisexual women from its public events as doing so would constitute unlawful discrimination, a tribunal has ruled. Read more here.

TEACHERS UNION WEBINARS: LAND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS, WHITE PRIVILEGE, HOMOSEXUAL PRIDE FLAGS IN CLASSES. The National Education Association recently held a pair of virtual workshops on battling the Trump agenda and defending LGBTQ+ rights in schools, where attendees complained about the group Moms for Liberty, book “bans,” and “parents’ bill of rights.” Read more here.

U.S. SUPREME COURT AGREES TO HEAR CASE ON PARENTAL RIGHTS AND LGBT CONTENT IN SCHOOLS. The U.S. Supreme Court will hear Mahmoud v. Taylor, a case involving parents’ right to opt their children out of LGBT content pertaining to sexuality and gender, filed in 2023 by parents in Maryland from multiple faith backgrounds. Read more here.

NY MOM BLASTS SCHOOL BOARD OVER INAPPROPRIATE BOOK IN ELEMENTARY LIBRARY. A New York mom showed up at a recent Penfield Central School District board meeting to complain that her elementary-age child had taken home from the school library promoting homosexual and trans lifestyles. Read more here.

TEXAS LGBT ART EXHIBIT COULD ADVANCE NORMALIZATION OF PEDOPHILIA, CHRISTIAN GROUP WARNS. Police have reportedly removed four photographs from the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth exhibit “Diaries of Home” by photographer Sally Mann after a number of Republican officials alleged the exhibit was promoting child pornography. Read more here.

YALE COURSE ASKS: CAN SCIENCE ‘BE MADE QUEER.’ The course description asks, “Can facial recognition technology really tell if you’re queer? Why is everyone so obsessed with gay penguins? For that matter, how did science come to be the right tool for defining and knowing sex, gender, and sexuality at all?” Read more here.

BIDEN’S LGBTQ MILITARY POLICY WILL AID SEXUAL PREDATORS: REPORT. The Biden-Harris administration is contemplating the settling of a sweeping class action lawsuit, which its advocates referred to as “reparations,” to give taxpayer benefits to those expelled from the armed forces for committing sodomy — an action that could benefit those guilty of non-consensual sexual assault or harassment. Read more here.

MINNESOTA SCHOOL DISTRICT REMOVES LGBTQ CHILDREN’S BOOK WITH NUDITY, DESPITE OBJECTIONS. Rochester Public Schools said it pulled the 2022 book, “The Rainbow Parade” by Emily Neilson, from its elementary school media center last month after a Franklin Elementary School parent raised concerns about nude illustrations in the book. Read more here.

MARATHON OFFERS 500 DISCOUNTED TICKETS TO MINORITY AND LGBT RUNNERS. Grandma’s Marathon in Duluth, Minn., said it will offer 500 discounted tickets to special groups, which include, but are not limited to “communities of color, athletes with disabilities, non-binary athletes, and LGBTQI+ athletes.” Read more here.

ONTARIO CITY COUNCILOR SUSPENDED FOR OPPOSING LGBT AGENDA SLAMS DECISION TO KEEP PUBLIC OUT OF MEETINGS. Lisa Robinson, a Pickering, Ontario city councilor who was suspended for opposing an LGBT agenda, called a recent move by the city to ban in-person public meetings an “affront to democracy.” Read more here.

FEDERALLY FUNDED ‘BEARDED LADIES’ ICE SKATING SHOW TARGETS CHILDREN. The U.S. National Endowment for the Arts awarded a grant to the Bearded Ladies Cabaret which features singing drag queens who promote climate change ideology. Read more here.

BIDEN ADMIN FUNDED PROGRAM TO PULL KIDS OUT OF SCHOOL AND INDOCTRINATE THEM. According to details of a grant, the Biden Administration handed out millions of dollars to researchers for an experimental program that lets students participate in a paid 10-week long “intervention” designed to help LGBTQ-identifying kids “cope with the effects of minority stress.” Read more here.

MASSACHUSSETTS HIGH SCHOOL’S ‘LGBTQ+ AWARENESS DAY’ FEATURES ‘QUEER JEOPARDY,’ ‘HISTORY OF QUEER MEDIA.’ Newton South High School’s Gender and Sexual Awareness and Gender Equity Club allowed teachers to take students to a teacher/staff panel where participants shared their “experiences as queer educators.” Read more here.

ILLINOIS STATE U. OMITS KEY FACTS ON WHY IT CLOSED LGBT ‘HATE CRIME’ CASE. The alleged victim of an anti-homosexual “hate crime” at Illinois State University is not even homosexual – and he changed his story multiple times, according to a police report. Read more here.

PARENTS BLAST HIGH SCHOOL LGBTQ ASSIGNMENT GIVEN TO THEIR KIDS. Southern California parents blasted their kids’ school after a math teacher at Rancho Buena Vista high school gave his students an LGBTQ assignment in which they were to come out as homosexual. Read more here.

BOSTON U. ‘QUEERING HEALTH’ CLASS TO TEACH ‘LGBTQ+ AFFIRMING THERAPIES.’ Boston University is offering a class called “Queering Health” next year to teach students about “LGBTQ+ affirming therapies, healthcare, public policy, and legislation,” and the course is a requirement for graduation. Read more here.

CRITICS SLAM KETANJI BROWN JACKSON FOR QUEER BROADWAY CAMEO. U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson drew scorn on social media for her debut last weekend in the queer-themed musical “& Juliet” on Broadway in New York City. Read more here.

ORGANIZERS AND SUPPORTERS RELUCTANT TO DISCUSS PLANNED LGBT JUBILEE DAY IN ROME. An Italian association of LGBT Christians has said it has received official Vatican approval to make a pilgrimage to next year’s jubilee in Rome, although the Vatican’s jubilee organizers say they are neither supporting nor opposing the event while the figures behind it are declining to comment. Read more here.

CANADIAN MAYOR HAS BANK ACCOUNT GARNISHED AFTER STANDING UP TO LGBT ACTIVISTS. After Mayor Harold McQuaker of Emo, Ontario announced he would not be “extorted” by an LGBT activist group, the latter successfully petitioned the court to garnish $5,000 from the 77-year-old’s bank account. Read more here.

PARENTS OUTRAGED MAINE SCHOOL CLINIC COULD GIVE STUDENTS CONFIDENTIAL ‘REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH CARE.’ Maine School Administrative District 11 voted to review the contract for a school-based health center that may give students confidential “reproductive health care,” including transgender drugs and birth-control prescriptions. Read more here.

HOMOSEXUAL ‘MARRIED’ MEN BEHIND PRO-LGBT OUTLET PINKNEWS ACCUSED OF SEXUAL MISCONDUCT. The couple that runs PinkNews, the world’s largest LGBT news website and activist outlet, has “been accused by staff of multiple incidents of sexual misconduct,” according to the BBC. Read more here.

U.S. GOVERNMENT’S ‘PANSEXUAL AND PANROMANTIC PRIDE DAY’ POST SPARKS BACKLASH. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services issued a “Happy Pansexual and Panromantic Pride Day!” post on Sunday, drawing backlash, with people expressing eager anticipation for the change in the presidential administration next month. Read more here.

TEXAS NATIVE AND PANSEXUAL WINS BIGGEST U.S. WOMEN’S FIGURE SKATING TITLE IN 14 YEARS, BEATING JAPAN’S STARS. America’s 14-year drought of women’s figure skating Grand Prix champions ended Saturday when Amber Glenn, a woman who identifies as “pansexual,” overcame elite Japanese opponents to take first place. Read more here.

ONTARIO MAYOR SAYS HE WON’T PAY $5K FINE FOR NOT DECLARING ‘PRIDE MONTH.’ A human rights tribunal recently fined the township of Emo, Ontario for “discrimination” after refusing to recognize pride month and fly a rainbow flag last summer. Read more here.

TEXAS LAWMAKER VOWS TO CUT LGBT-RELATED PROPAGANDA IN HIGHER ED. Rep. Brian Harrison, a Republican state legislator, is threatening to cut off funds from the state’s public university system if public colleges and universities continue to offer homosexual-related indoctrination courses. Read more here.

WICKED MOVIE BANNED IN KUWAIT, POSSIBLY DUE TO LGBTQ CAST MEMBERS. Wicked has reportedly been banned from theaters in Kuwait, with some believing the cause to be related to the film’s many LGBTQ cast members. Read more here.

LGBTQ GROUP DISAPPOINTED AFTER MANCHESTER UNITED SQUAD DID NOT WEAR RAINBOW JACKETS. An independent LGBTQ supporters’ group of Manchester United soccer club has expressed its disappointment after specially designed jackets to mark the club’s official Rainbow Laces game were not worn by players ahead of Sunday’s home win against Everton. Read more here.

CHRISTIANS FURIOUS OVER TOWN’S HOMOSEXUAL CHRISTMAS PARADE. Prattville Pride has granted permission to participate in this year’s Christmas parade in Prattville, Alabama – over the objections of many residents who say the parade is not about anyone’s sexual preferences. Read more here.

WINNING: WALMART ROLLS BACK DEI PROGRAMS, CUTS BACK ON ‘PRIDE’ COMMITMENTS. Walmart announced it will keep a closer eye on third-party suppliers to make sure sexualized products, including things like chest binders for “trans” people, aren’t marketed to children and said it will be more diligent about making sure the company is not financially supporting “Pride” events targeting kids. Read more here.

HUMAN RIGHTS TRIBUNAL FINES SMALL ONTARIO TOWN FOR REFUSING TO FLY LGBT ‘PRIDE FLAG’ IN 2020. The Ontario Human Rights Tribunal awarded money to Borderland Pride, a local LGBT activist group from Emo Township after the small Ontario town refused to bend to the demands of LGBT activists and celebrate June as “pride” month. Read more here.

MICHIGAN HOUSE DEMOCRATS INTRODUCE ‘FREEDOM TO READ ACT’ TO PROTECT LGBT LITERATURE. Michigan House Democrats have announced a bill that would protect public libraries from demands of LGBT books being pulled from their shelves. Read more here.

CHILDREN IN NEED CHAIR RESIGNS OVER GRANTS TO SCANDAL-HIT CHARITY. The chair of the British Broadcast Company’s Children in Need charity has resigned, after reports that she protested over grants awarded to an LGBT youth charity, whose former chief had previously been involved in a child abuse scandal. Read more here.

EU DRAGS HUNGARY BEFORE TOP EUROPEAN COURT OVER LAW BANNING LGBT INDOCTRINATION OF CHILDREN. Hungary is being dragged before the European Court of Justice on charges of “massive and flagrant violation of several important EU rules,” because the Hungarian Child Protection Act mandates a zero-tolerance policy for pedophiles and restricts LGBT propaganda from being targeted at children. Read more here.

PENN U. GRANT TO ‘IMPROVE COMMUNICATION’ BETWEEN PARENTS, HOMOSEXUAL SONS. Penn University’s nursing program has received a grant from the National Institutes of Health to develop and evaluate a new intervention designed to improve communication between parents and their homosexual or bisexual adolescent sons. Read more here.

HUNGARIAN CHILD PROTECTION LAW CRITICIZED AS ANTI-LGBT TO APPEAR BEFORE EU COURT OF JUSTICE. Hungary’s controversial Child Protection Law is set to appear before the EU’s Court of Justice, proclaiming zero tolerance for convicted pedophiles and prohibits or heavily restricts depictions of homosexuality and gender reassignment in media content and educational material addressed to audiences under 18 years of age. Read more here.

KYIVANS ASKING CITY TO CANCEL THIS YEAR’S LGBT PARADE. Kyiv residents appealed to the city authorities to cancel the announced LGBT parade due to their support of traditional family values. Read more here.

ARCHBISHOP OF CINCINNATI ENDS 100+ YEAR PARTNERSHIP WITH GIRL SCOUTS OVER LGBT IDEOLOGY. Archbishop Dennis Schnurr announced the end of a 110-year partnership between the Archdiocese of Cincinnati with the Girl Scouts of the USA because the organization now contradicts Church teaching about the human person and promotes gender ideology. Read more here.

VIRGINIA SCHOOLS SECRETLY REMOVE LGBTQ BOOK AMID EXPLICIT IMAGES CONTROVERSY. Fairfax County Public Schools in the Washington, D.C., suburbs confirmed in emails to a parent that school libraries across the county had removed the book “Queer: A Graphic History,” by Meg-John Barker. Read more here.

UMC LAUNCHES PROJECT FOCUSED ON ‘LGBTQ+ UNITED METHODIST HERITAGE’ AT DREW UNIVERSITY. A commission of The United Methodist Church has launched a resource center at Drew University in Madison, New Jersey, which will focus on the lives and views of LGBT-identified Methodists. Read more here.

VATICAN UNVEILS JUBILEE YEAR MASCOT ‘LUCE’ CREATED BY PRO-LGBT ARTIST. The Vatican has unveiled an official animated mascot named Luce, who wears a rainbow-colored rosary around her neck, for the upcoming Jubilee Year 2025 in an apparent attempt to appeal to more young people. Read more here.

AIR FORCE ALLOWED ‘PRIDE’ SHIRT DURING SJSU MATCH BUT NOT A ‘KEEP WOMEN’S SPORTS FEMALE’ SHIRT. A controversy arose at the Air Force Academy’s most recent women’s volleyball match when security told a fan that he couldn’t wear a shirt that said “Keep Women’s Sports Female” during a volleyball match against San Jose State and its transgender male player. Read more here.

MARYLAND SCHOOL DISTRICT PULLS LGBTQ BOOKS AMID LEGAL BATTLE BEFORE SUPREME COURT. A Maryland school district has pulled two books with “LGBTQ+” characters from its curriculum amid an ongoing legal battle launched by concerned parents vying for the right to opt their children out of classroom lessons they say conflict with their religious faith. Read more here.

PRO-LGBT THEATER SHUTS DOWN AFTER NEW YORK ARCHDIOCESE SAYS SHOWS MUST CONFORM TO CHURCH TEACHING. The pro-LGBT Connelly Theater closed after the Archdiocese of New York, which owns the property, began to prohibit performances that fly in the face of Catholic teaching. Read more here.

DURANGO SCHOOLS REVERSE BAN ON PRIDE FLAGS AFTER PUBLIC BACKLASH. A Durango, Colorado school district’s ban on Black Lives Matter and transgender flags only survived a few days before it caved to LGBT supporters, leading one lone mom to stand up against the local school board. Read more here.

POLAND PUBLISHES CIVIL PARTNERSHIP BILL FOR LGBT COUPLES. Poland moved a step closer to legalizing civil partnerships with the publication of a draft law that the minister responsible for the legislation hailed as a “historic day.” Read more here.

GERMAN SOCCER PLAYER FORCED TO APOLOGIZE FOR SAYING HE WOULDN’T SIGN A PRIDE-THEMED JERSEY. VfL Wolfsburg striker Kevin Behrens refused to autograph an LGBTQ pride jersey, and was forced to apologize for making a so-called “homophobic” remark about the request. Read more here.

FEDERAL JUDGE DISMISSES DENVER PARENT’S LAWSUIT SEEKING TO PUT ‘STRAIGHT PRIDE’ FLAG IN CLASSROOMS. U.S. District Court Judge Regina M. Rodriguez ruled against a parent who alleged discrimination and a violation of the First Amendment stemming from Denver Public Schools declining to add a straight pride flag in his children’s classrooms alongside displays of LGBTQ pride flags. Read more here.

KENT STATE U. OFFERS NEARLY 150 COURSES THAT DISCUSS GENDER, SEXUALITY, OR LGBTQ+ TOPICS. A search for “LGBTQ” in the KSU 2024-25 course catalog brings up 14 courses, and a search for “gender” brings up 98 courses. A search for “sexuality” brings up 47 courses. A few of the courses overlapped among the three topics. Read more here.

REPORT: CARDINALS ATTEND LGBT EVENT PROMOTING EXPRESSION OF HOMOSEXUAL LOVE. A group of Cardinals in Rome for the Synod on Synodality attended an event hosted by Father James Martin S.J. and his Outreach group, where attendees heard testimonials from “LGBTQ Catholics.” Read more here.